[haiku-bugs] [Haiku] #7854: BVolume method to ask which characters a filesystem considers invalid
- From: "jonas.kirilla" <trac@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2011 15:41:32 -0000
#7854: BVolume method to ask which characters a filesystem considers invalid
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Reporter: jonas.kirilla | Owner: axeld
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: R1
Component: Kits/Storage Kit | Version: R1/Development
Keywords: | Blocked By:
Blocking: | Has a Patch: 0
Platform: All |
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Copying filesets to non-BFS filesystems in Tracker often stalls on
filenames having characters not allowed on the target filesystem. It would
be nice if Tracker's pre-copy analysis could be extended to also check for
filenames that would be invalid on the target volume, and warn about these
before starting the copy process.
One could provide a method
status_t BVolume::InvalidCharacters(BString& string)
which would populate the given string with characters considered invalid
by the volume's filesystem, using a syscall to ask the filesystem for its
set of invalid characters.
It's not unthinkable that some filesystems have more complex naming rules,
but perhaps this API is sufficient. It is advisory rather than
authoritative/final.
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Ticket URL: <http://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/7854>
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